Ștefan Câlția
Straddling the border between fact and fantasy, Large Drawing is both the depository and the engine of a complex mechanism that serves to bring back to the present one of the tensest moments in the work of Ștefan Câlția.
Created on New Year’s Eve* in 1992, this work bears extensive testimony to the recent events of the post-Revolution period and provides the artist with the framework and means for an intimate outpouring. However, without openly denouncing or seeking to provide emphatic commentary, the column of monsters speaks to the state of a disoriented and disarticulated society, whose spasms and fluctuations are captured by Ștefan Câlția with the precision of a seismographer.
With text by Sandra Demetrescu, Ioana Mandeal
Book concept by Studio Shentzu
2023